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Same here. I've got a laptop with what I expect to be my last Windows install--and it only exists to run a Debian VM right now. Windows 7 is the end of the road for me.

I'm also kicking the Debian habit because it's become impossible to avoid systemd. Once that box dies, it's getting replaced with a Devuan box. I've invested some time recently in brushing up on OpenBSD, and that's my new solution for servers.

*nix wasn't broke. Didn't need fixing. Windows was tolerably useful, didn't need fixing, but they broke it anyway. I'm not unwilling to pay for software--I'm unwilling to pay for garbage I don't own. That's why Devuan and the OpenBSD Foundation made my list for donations over the holidays.

You didn't look very hard for that number. It took me less than a minute. Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Iridium amounts (and donors) are found here http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

Do they really need one?

I can't find an exact figure for the donation but according to http://www.openbsdfoundation.o... it was in the $25K to $50K range. That may be a lot for an opensource project running on a shoestring budget but it's pretty trivial to MS. If they get some good PR and some help with the windows port of openssh out of it then it's probablly money well spent.

I guess Theo doesn't object to Microsoft so badly that he isn't willing to pocket their bribes.

The OpenBSD Foundation lists its directors on its website.

Theo is not one of them.

Why not try:

The OpenBSD Foundation - Funding for OpenBSD and related Projects

Website:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

You can reach many useful projects with this one foundation.

Projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, LibreSSL, and mandoc.

These guy are vital for our everyday life in: Security & Privacy.

A few related talks from them:
Exploit Mitigation Techniques:
https://events.yandex.com/even...

An OpenBSD talk by Michael Lucas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Thank you.

OpenBSD is hoping to do just that.

http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

Development of portable versions of other OpenBSD projects doesn't appear to have suffered.[1] What makes you think LibreSSL will be any different?

[1] The OpenBSD Foundation:
OpenSSH
OpenNTPD
OpenSMTPD

gsoc2014#bug-tracking -- http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

Facebook and Google already donated to the OpenBSD Foundation in 2014. http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

What's the problem?

A lot of these people have shit colored glasses bolted to their skulls. Combine this with an irrational hate for anything corporate and there you go; petulant little office trolls emoting on Slashdot.

Theo et al. have and are publically seeking for both individual and corporate support for both the OpenBSD Foundation and LibreSSL, and are specifically seeking a "Stable Commitment of Funding."

Unlike some of the malcontents that haunt Slashdot, they actually spend their time writing open source code. As such, they are painfully aware that large scale open source work is not actually the exclusive product of self funding trust fund rebels.

that make up critical elements of their information infrastructure.

Frankly the only reason I think these multibillion dollar monopolistic companies have banded together to throw money is because their reputation and userbase have clammored for some kind of response to the problem. lets be perfectly clear: Theo De Raadt is completely capable of handling the code refactor (he even went so far as to say he didnt need help with the code projects website.) going to the Linux foundation just shows how fucking shortsighted these guys are. If you want to help, donate to the OpenBSD foundation because this is a BSD package that was kindly ported to Linux. It will be released as LibreSSL, not the OpenSSL you want to "fix" in your products, as the code is completed and tested in accordance with what I presume is an OpenBSD development model, not Linux. And in regard to the 'other open source projects will follow' statement, its arrogant and absurd to think that once the LibreSSL code is finalized and ported that these dicks are going to stick around and continue to contribute to any open source technology that doesnt clandestinely butter their bread in user facing products that happen to be facing a sev. 1 exploit they cant avoid through marketing or a new product.

wrong, they are working already. They've been working for years. They have been getting funding for years. They have proven projects that benefit everyone. They are merely asking for more donations: http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

what is wrong with that, they have long track record of success.

suck on this thermometer: http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags.

$30,949 is how much the OpenBSD Foundation received in donations in 2013.

That's about $29,000 more than OpenSSL receives every year, and still $22,000 more than they received this month when the entire world realized that they had been freeloading and scrambled to make themselves look good by making one-time donations.

$30,949 is how much the OpenBSD Foundation received in donations in 2013. That has to get fixed as their expenses were $54,914 and only a one-time transfer from an old account covered the deficit.

The community that depends on OpenSSH, OpenNTPD and the like needs to figure out how to support these projects.

Personally I'd like to see the Foundation offer targeted donations to specific projects with a percentage (~20% perhaps) going into the general operations fund. I bet there are a bunch of people who would throw a hundred bucks at OpenSSH but would be concerned that a general donation would go to some odd thing Theo is doing (whether that be fair or not).

And if "Fixing OpenSSL" were one of the donation options, then hold on to your hats - I think we're all in agreement on this. We do know that the folks currently working on the projects are paid by others but if the Foundation can get enough money to offset expenses then it could actually do some development work and possibly finally take care of some sorely-neglected tasks on a few of these codebases.

And then there's this: http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

It has been confirmed:

The MPEx Bitcoin stock exchange (run by Mircea Popescu) is listed on the significant contributors page.

Also, according to Bob Beck, director of OpenBSD Foundation, 100k has been raised so far; their target goal for 2014 fundraising is 150k:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2014.html

It has been confirmed:

The MPEx Bitcoin stock exchange (run by Mircea Popescu) is listed on the significant contributors page.

Also, according to Bob Beck, director of OpenBSD Foundation, 100k has been raised so far; their target goal for 2014 fundraising is 150k:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2014.html

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html MPEx is now listed.

OpenBSD already accepts Bitcoin donations:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

Just sent 50 CAD worth, easy peasy. They get converted on the fly to the local currency by BitPay.

Are you from 2010?

OpenBSD Foundation

It is never a happy occasion to realize that a not-for-profit group, no matter how destitute or successful, is undeserving of charitable donations. And just last week I had such an unhappy realization. I wanted to donate a sizable sum of money to the OpenBSD Foundation for development of the OpeBSD operating system and other related projects.

My uncle, an old Unix graybeard from the Seventies, devoted his retirement and considerable savings to teaching inner-city youth about computers and programming. He recently passed away and left instructions in his will that I donate money, in the amount of US $100,000, to the most meritorious Free, Unix-like operating system as according to my own research into the matter.

I immediately looked at OpenBSD and began to review its technical merits, of which there are many. Despite lacking serious symmetric multi-processing support and drivers for recent graphics hardware, OpenBSD security and code-auditing are second to none. One only has to take a look at the bevy of routers that ship with OpenBSD to know how many people successfully depend on it everyday.

The OpenBSD Foundation is also behind several software packages widely adopted in other operating systems, such as OpenBGPD, OpenCVS, OpenNTPD, and OpenSSH. OpenSSH, for instance, is what allows clueless Mac users to remotely log into their systems safely, blissfully unaware of hackers.

After looking at the technical merits of OpenBSD and related projects, I owed it to the memory of my uncle to check out the history of the people behind it all. But that's when I ran into some interesting decisions regarding OpenBSD advocacy and funding made my OpenBSD's lead developer, Theo de Raadt.

In 2003, Mr. de Raadt trash-talked the United States military and its various aid projects for the Iraqi people. But at the time, OpenBSD was receiving a multi-million dollar grant from the United States Department of Defense. After the interview was published the DOD cancelled funding, which left several OpenBSD projects in limbo for quite some time thereafter.

This is just one of the more public instances of Mr. de Raadt sharing unpopular personal opinions while acting as OpenBSD's public advocate and costing the project considerable time and money. And, unfortunately, there are others.

Another time, Mr. de Raadt visited his native South Africa to receive a donation from a wealthy politician but unexpectedly refused it at the podium, instead making a speech in which he equated the use of non-Free graphics drivers with Apartheid. Mr. de Raadt left without the check but later claimed to have won an important moral victory.

Mr. de Raadt himself is at the root of the problem, but here I can't really separate the man from the project; Theo de Raadt is OpenBSD. So donating toward OpenBSD's goals means handing over money to this crackpot activist, if he would even accept it. That's too bad because OpenBSD would be further ahead without these sorts of megalomaniacal antics.

Digging even further back in time, it's clear that this pattern of behavior is nothing new. Theo de Raadt was one of the incipient developers of NetBSD, but harass[ed] and abuse[d] both users and developers of NetBSD. His colleagues subsequently locked him out of the project, de Raadt forked OpenBSD, and the rest is history.

After reviewing these facts, it is clear that I will fail to honor my uncle's memory and all of the hard work he did in life by donating to OpenBSD. If I wanted to dishonor him, maybe. And I find it highly likely that Theo de Raadt

Given the fact that it was stated by Bob Beck, a member of the OpenBSD programming teams, I think he will be OK with it.

Besides, the OpenBSD Foundation stated very clearly that it will focus on large donations (of funds, hardware, etc) and that small donations should be sent directly to OpenBSD through the usual channels. RTFA and all that.

I do think Theo will be A-OK with that.